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Man who tried to flush a gun down a Chicago police station toilet gets 4-year sentence
CWB Chicago ^ | April 4, 2023 | CWB Chicago staff writer

Posted on 04/05/2023 7:24:32 AM PDT by Salman

CHICAGO — A Chicago man has been sentenced to four years for illegal gun possession and another four years for trying to flush a second gun that cops didn’t know about down the toilet of his Chicago Police Department holding cell.

Tavarus Walker, 25, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated unlawful use of a weapon in a vehicle with a previous conviction in exchange for the sentences from Judge William Hooks, according to court records.

But it could have been a lot worse. Prosecutors dropped the two most serious charges Walker faced: Class X possession of a firearm inside a penal institution and possession of a firearm by a felon.

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(Excerpt) Read more at cwbchicago.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: banglist; chicago; crime; gun; toilet
In general Chicago cops don't enforce federal gun law, but sometimes ...
1 posted on 04/05/2023 7:24:32 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Salman

Wow!

They must not have gotten that confession or other evidence they needed.


2 posted on 04/05/2023 7:26:18 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: Salman

No one frisked the guy before sticking him in a cage? Perplexing.


3 posted on 04/05/2023 7:26:45 AM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: Salman

....”...Tavarus Walker......” obviously a budding rocket scientist or maybe brain surgeon....this guy’s IQ is probably on par with that of an earthworm.....


4 posted on 04/05/2023 7:27:11 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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To: Salman

Once he flushed the gun, I’m surprised the cops had anything to go on.


5 posted on 04/05/2023 7:27:41 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: TokarevM57

If he things a gun will flush I feel for his poor toilet at home ... the horrors he must have inflicted on it!


6 posted on 04/05/2023 7:34:29 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosophers )
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To: Salman

That’s a crime against plumbing.


7 posted on 04/05/2023 7:34:38 AM PDT by rdl6989 ( )
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To: Rurudyne

Thinks ... not things ... darn pudgy fingers....


8 posted on 04/05/2023 7:35:04 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosophers )
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To: Salman

Was it an old-fashioned toilet? You know, the box and the chain thing.


9 posted on 04/05/2023 7:35:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Not in a jail cell. Can’t have any tank in there for the prisoners to hide stuff in.


10 posted on 04/05/2023 8:05:59 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Karliner
No one frisked the guy before sticking him in a cage? Perplexing.

A friend is a newly minted medical doctor, now on an advanced program in gastroenterology. He's assigned to the local county hospital, and as the low-man on the totem pole, pulls the night shifts and "special cases."

Which includes being on call for all the prisoners coming from county jail who swallow objects to get a few days of "vacation," or who are found to have stuck bizarre things up their rectum, both dangerous and inert.

Says he regularly gets a couple cases each week from the county jail

11 posted on 04/05/2023 8:09:27 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: rdl6989

A new way to clear a plugged toilet ... the Chicago way ... works only once, though.


12 posted on 04/05/2023 8:12:01 AM PDT by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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To: Salman

Not looking. But I will guess how his mutha name him: Ah likes dat funk ban Tavares so ah names my boy Tavarus. How u spell dat?


13 posted on 04/05/2023 8:49:36 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo
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To: Salman

Tavarus Walker, 25, sharp as a bowling ball. Trying to flush a firearm .

The cops doing a half assed frisk!

14 posted on 04/05/2023 8:59:42 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: Salman

Prosecutors dropped the two most serious charges Walker faced: Whey they are warned of extra charges if they bring prohibited items into the jail.


15 posted on 04/05/2023 9:04:21 AM PDT by pas
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To: Salman

Lost my guns in a toilet accident? Doesn’t have the same ring...


16 posted on 04/05/2023 10:40:55 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: PGR88

I get that but the report said he had it in his waistband not his butt. Someone didn’t do their job very well.


17 posted on 04/05/2023 2:22:19 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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